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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 18, 2015 in a speech at the Iowa State Fair:
"We have an Army that just cut 40,000 spots."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2015
Represent.us
Represent.us
stated on April 30, 2015 in a meme on social media:
"The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 30, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 24, 2015 in a Senate floor speech:
"Inflation-adjusted defense spending has declined 21 percent since 2010, and even if we discount the drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has still declined by a dangerous 12 percent."
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By Joshua Gillin • March 30, 2015
Kay Hagan
Kay Hagan
stated on October 3, 2014 in a news release:
Says Thom Tillis "refuses to say what we should do to combat ISIS."
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By Bill Adair, Shaker Samman • October 7, 2014
LZ Granderson
LZ Granderson
stated on September 28, 2014 in comments on CNN's "State of the Union":
Says President Barack Obama has launched "twice as many strikes (on) countries that are predominantly Muslim" than President George W. Bush.
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By Lauren Carroll • September 28, 2014
John McCain
John McCain
stated on September 10, 2014 in an interview on CNN:
"(Obama's) entire national security team, including his secretary of state, said we want to arm and train and equip (Syrian rebel forces), and he made the unilateral decision to turn them down."  
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By Steve Contorno • September 11, 2014
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper
stated on July 29, 2014 in comments on CNN:
Israel in the last three weeks has "killed more Palestinian children, more than 200, than the total number of Israeli soldiers killed in military operations since 2006."
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By Derek Tsang • July 31, 2014
Stu Burguiere
Stu Burguiere
stated on July 15, 2014 in comments on The Glenn Beck Radio Program:
There are fewer wars, there are fewer people dying in wars "now than there have been in quite some time."
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By Derek Tsang • July 21, 2014
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on July 20, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":
"The so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media."  
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By Lauren Carroll • July 20, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 in her book, "Hard Choices":
"By 2006, the American people were overwhelmingly against the Iraq War."
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By Molly O'Connor • June 20, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 11, 2014 in a speech:
All 28 members of NATO have "pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their economy on defense. But only three countries do -- Britain, Greece and us."  
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By Tom Kertscher • June 19, 2014
Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers
stated on June 15, 2014 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
"Thousands of Westerners and Americans" are fighting with extremists in eastern Syria and Iraq. 
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • June 18, 2014
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 1, 2014 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
The five Taliban detainees being released from Guantanamo in exchange for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl "are the hardest of the hard-core. These are the highest high-risk people."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 2, 2014
Chris Matthews
Chris Matthews
stated on March 3, 2014 in a segment on "Hardball":
"The Russians didn’t wear uniforms when they came in" to Ukraine.
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By Katie Sanders • March 4, 2014
Robert Gates
Robert Gates
stated on January 13, 2014 in an interview with NPR:
On foreign policy, Joe Biden was against aid for Vietnam, said the fall of the Shah was "a step forward" for human rights in Iran, opposed Reagan's defense build-up and voted against the first Gulf War.
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By Steve Contorno • January 16, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 20, 2013 in a speech at American Enterprise Institute:
"The reason we have a national debt is not because of defense spending. What is driving our long-term debt are Medicare and Social Security programs."
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By Amy Sherman • November 22, 2013
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on November 7, 2013 in a hearing:
The U.S. Department of Defense spends $80 million a year on prostate cancer research, $25 million a year on ovarian cancer research and $150 million a year on breast cancer research.
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By Eric Stirgus • November 19, 2013
Van Jones
Van Jones
stated on September 10, 2013 in a discussion on CNN's "Crossfire":
The United Nations has conducted "172 successful peacekeeping missions and negotiations."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2013
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on September 8, 2013 in a segment of 'Fox News Sunday':
"Before President Obama acted in Libya in 2011, the American people were opposed to military action by 35 to 60. After he took action, they were in support of it 54 to 43."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 10, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on September 2, 2013 in a CNN interview:
Says there's a "100-year-old international norm not to use chemical weapons."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • September 5, 2013
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